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I know this probably comes up a lot and is liable to spark some debate, but I'm curious what the good options are for terminals. I've skimmed some reddit/lemmy posts about it and looked at a few options and I dunno how to decide between them because they all seem like they're too narrowly focused on some particular use case. I'm just using it for general terminal stuff, nothing terribly fancy. I'm aware that there's not one terminal to rule them all or anything, so I'm curious: what do you folks use, and more importantly, why do you use that over the (many) other options available?

Personally I've just been using konsole since it's what came with kde and it seems nice and all, but I feel like I'm missing out on features I don't even know about. One feature that might be nice is some kind of local LLM integration so I can get help on how to tinker with settings and such where i'm doing the tinkering instead of constantly tabbing out to duck.ai or w/e.

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[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 2 points 1 week ago

My terminal of choice nowadays is Alacritty. It's nice and clean, has a text based config file and decent feature support. The only annoyance is the lack of tabs, but I spend most of my terminal time ssh'd into a tmux session on a remote server anyway.

[–] Kwdg@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago

I like minimal terminals, was using st for a long time and now I'm using foot for quite a while already. Since I'm using tmux I don't need my terminal to have any tab/windowing features

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

My suggestion is you focus more on learning to use the terminal than figuring out which one to use. Switching terminals is like a micro version of distro hopping without the benefits.

I use ollama for llms, but being a terminal tool, you need to be comfortable using the terminal.

To answer your original question, I use alacritty. Minimal bells and whistles. Just a terminal.

[–] verdigris@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Uhh, switching terminals is nothing like distro-hopping, that's a ridiculous analogy. You might need to configure the new terminal, but that's it, and there's no cost or conflict.

[–] Libra@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Fair, although I am reasonably comfortable with the terminal (just don't know all the commands and such, always having to look that sort of thing up). I used to run linux installs many years ago back when stuff like slackware and redhat were the standard distros and X was iffy at best so I've done a lot of that sort of thing, just not in like 20+ years.

But I'm seeing lots of recommendations for alacritty, I'll check it out, though most people seem to think konsole is fine unless I have specific needs which I really don't. Thanks!

[–] verdigris@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

I love foot. The only caveat is that it's only for Wayland (no X support).

[–] eta@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I recently tried out some terminals but in the end it didn't really make all that big of a difference, maybe because I use tmux so I don't need split functionality. For a long time I used Gnome Console because it came with my distro but then I tried Ghostty because some people said it was the best and I also thought I was missing out. However for me it was mostly the same as before and it was cool in a way but for some reason it didn't really click. Now I am using Wezterm because other people said it's the best and what i like is that it comes as a flatpak and it is configured using Lua. But I could just go back to Gnome Console if I had to.

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[–] transscribe7891@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] los_chill@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

Wezterm has been my daily for years. Has enough extras to let any crazy terminal app work as intended but doesn't try to do too much.

[–] BillyCrystalMeth@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago

I'm using Kitty. Kitten ssh is smooth as I ssh into other machines a lot. I also love being able to split the screen and have tabs. I use Kitty session a lot, I have a pre-configured yaml file that just sets up the terminal for me. I like the keyboard shortcuts too.

I used urxvt on my last install, but now I'm using Kitty because urxvt on Debian isn't compiled with true colour and I didn't want to install from source.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

xfce4-terminal, in wayland+niri too. Because alternatives are always missing some features or are too bloated.

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[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 1 points 1 week ago

I like Sakura. It's lightweight.

[–] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 week ago (5 children)

It's not nice to make people read through half of your post to find out your question, sir.

Moreover, does the result produced by a search engine not be sufficient? Do you genuinely want Lemmy user's opinions?

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